Sorry if this has been posted already:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...353326558.html

My prior job, the last time it happened, the 2nd or 3rd person to use the "I don't think I should be receiving this, please remove me!" was a company VP who had been with the company 20+ years and had, through his mangers and their supervisors, etc, about 200-300 people reporting to him. Nobdy respected him much before this...and hardly anyone after.

That chart is awesome.

WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts

Pretty nifty weather site for those that like this kind of stuff.

followup from yesterday's awesomeness: I've now received over 75 reply all e-mails. That gif molson posted is awesome.

i avoid software updates like the plague. i am convinced they include minimal backwards compatibility meant to sabotage and frustrate and ultimately get you to upgrade hardware.

inevitably, there comes a time when you need to use something that requires such and such version of your os, itunes whatever. so i take the plunge and hope for the best.

now, my once like clockwork imac is all pinwheels and crashes. i'm sure this will continue until i reach critical mass and buy something new.

when the aliens find the charred remains of our planet i want them to know, it was planned obsolescence.

Actually Apple does an outstanding job of including backwards compatibility in most of it's software for older machines. Yes, it does get to a point where they will no longer support older machines though. Heck, I think it was the middle of 2009 when we finally decided to drop support of the Power PC chips for Final Cut Studio and went with only supporting the Intel chips.

Can't speak for iTunes with the iPhone OS, since Apple does not like it to be jailbroken.

My refrigerator stopped working. The only way to get it to run is to unplug it and plug it back in again, but once it hits the designated temperature it stops running.

I had a guy out, he recommended I buy a new one.

I have never purhcased a refrigerator before.

It's like buying a new ceiling fan for your bedroom, but totally different.

I don't even understand how they got a refrigerator into my house. It looks bigger than the doors.

As far as major kitchen appliances go, it's the easiest to shop for. Have no fear. Just find one big enough in your price range and let them do all the work for you.

I recommend buying a white refrigerator. I have never had a problem with ours.

Ouch. That's a bit racialist.

The fridge in my basement is bigger than the door, which I realized when trying to bring it upstairs to throw it out. Needless to say, it's staying put. I think the fridge was there when the previous owner finished the basement.

They need to make fridges more disassemblable.

Yes, my main concerns are:

1. Getting the old fridge out and the new one in. I know the delivery guys will do it for me, but still, I don't want to have to take doors off hinges and the like. No idea how the current fridge got into the kitchen, since we inherited it.

2. The cold water line for an icemaker. My current fridge doesn't have an automatic ice maker. Not only do I want one, but it's hard to find a decent fridge today that doesn't have one. Our fridge is not that close to our sink. I don't know if the installation guys will do it or if I will need to get a plumber.

On my last fridge install the installation guys wouldn't even connect the icemaker line, presumably due to liability concerns if it leaked. So my guess here would be plumber.

This is correct. They don't want to be responsible for water damage and such. It isn't really that difficult to hook up yourself, at least our refrigerator was easy enough.

Ha, I didn't even think of that. I was just making a joke equating the lack of problems from ours with the color of it instead of its make/model, etc.

Actually, we have 2 fridges - 1 black, 1 white. Black one came with the house. We bought the other for the basement. White is cheaper.

We had to buy a new fridge when we moved into our house 8 years ago.

We got one with an icemaker. Most places (Sears, Home Depot) sell a kit with all the necessities to make the connection.

2 options: run a line to the sink, or, drill through the floor to connect to a line in the basement (assuming your kitchen isn't in some odd location I guess).

Our sink is about 6 feet or so from where the fridge went. I wasn't real keen on the idea of drilling through the floor, not knowing what I might hit along the way.

The kit includes a saddle valve (I think that's the right term) and the copper tubing, along with the compression valves and other junk you need inside the line connecting to the fridge. Took me total time maybe an hour.

On a scalre of 1-10, 1 being I can't tie my shoes, 10 being my driver's license reads Bob Vila....I'm a 6 or so on the fix-it meter.

The only downsides I've found - the filters are sort of expensive. They recommend changing them every 3 months, but it's not like the water turns black. We've gone as long as 6 months, maybe more, without changing them without much noticeable difference.

And, if you have kids, and they learn to play with it, you find puddles on the floor alot.

Thanks for the info. Our sink is across the kitchen from our fridge, so I think it will be drilling a hole into the floor and connecting to a pipe in the basement.

On your fix-it meter scale, I am about 1.5 or 2, at best. My mind just doesn't work that way. So, I will be calling a plumber to handle the situation.

So you still rock the velcros?

I'd say check ahead of time with the plumber that you'll get all the stuff (kit) if that's OK. If I remember correctly, it was maybe $15 at HD, but he'd probably charge you $50 for "parts" if he can.

I did for a long time. Now I rock these bad boys - Gunsmoke, to be exact (note, no laces):

I'm a -2. My wife would probably say that's being generous. She's probably a 4.5.

Same here. My wife is inifinitely more handy than I am around the house. It's not even close. My skills only come into play when it's fixing computer issues, router/wireless, TV/DVDs, etc.

We once bought a wheel barrel. I took it out in the backyard to assemble it. There were instructions. It was pretty easy. I spent about 30 minutes staring at the instructions and not being able to get past step 3 or so. I had some part backwards or something. When my wife came out to check on me, the wheel barrel was barely assembled (and wrongly so) and I was rolling around in the grass playing with the dog. It was a Homer Simpson moment for me.

#2 is wayyyy easy, even having a 1 or 2/10 on the diy scale. I mean, they even sell the water line fitting with a pinhole maker on the end. You just clamp it onto a cold water line and twist.

Any decent store should have delivery and haul away.

I spent all weekend tearing out my shower and replacing the dry wall boarding around it, as well as retiling and such. Noticed it was starting to mold where the liner was coming up.

Pretty much where I am at, although I can do some stuff around the house, my wife just gets control issues and wants to do stuff herself. Also, her family is big into building things, like houses and furniture, so she grew up around that type of thing (whereas I did not).


I laughed my ass off at this. :lol:

Three weeks ago.

"Can you set up the credit card payment screen so they can only pay in increments of the monthly fees?"
"This is going to cause problems with the people that have weird balances - they will not be able to properly pay."
"I know, and we told them they will have to manually adjust the balances."
"This is stupid."
"They want it like this."
"Hookay."

Today.

"Someone is trying to pay a balance but it won't let them pay that amount - there any way around this?"

WHAT THE FUCK DID I TELL YOU.

And thus the entire reason I keep talking myself out of joining the corporate world and writing code again.

There's a Dilbert sketch in there somewhere. :)

we had a plumber run the line for our fridge. pretty inexpensive if I remember.

we've had the fridge about 10 years now. never changed the filter. I've tried to, but Sears doesnt seem to have the correct one. Kept being sold the wrong one and just gave up trying. I'm still alive.

I had my bachelor's party yesterday.

All I can say is... DAMN.

I'm so glad I live in the Philippines.

It has been a very expensive weekend for me. Two weeks, if you include that last weekend I had to buy two new tires for my car. But the good news is that tomorrow, I will have a new bed and in about 10 weeks I'll have an additional countertop/workbench in my kitchen.

Funny news is that even though I'm taking delivery of my bed tomorrow, I'm staying at my parents' house tomorrow night so I don't have to drive too far for a doctor appointment Tuesday morning.

/tk

I had no clue clocks changed today until 5 minutes ago. Everything I have changed themselves and only one told me, which is how I found out. Usually it fucks up my day, nice to have it seamless.

Getting sick and tired of the people on facebook trying to 'connect the dots' with biblical prophecy with what happened in Japan. The one that took the cake was something along the lines: "9/11 New York, 2/11 Haiti and 3/11 Japan" and then something about how the prophecies are coming true. If you knew about them, then why didn't warn anyone?

Wow really? So you cherry pick certain events to mold whatever it is you are trying to convince yourself of? So screw Christchurch New Zealand (no pun intended) or any of the other disasters that did NOT happen on the 11th day of a given month? The mental gymnastics are out in Olympian style force lately.

Apparently my kitchen cabinets use a hinge that is long extinct. If anyone knows where I might be able to order some hard to find kitchen hardware, please share. They look like two corner braces that overlays.

Picture?

this whole Ark Music/Rebecca Black thingy is hilarious. people will stop at nothing to whore their talentless children.
http://jakefogelnest.com/post/3818417090

I finally decided on a fridge. A Maytag.

I hope the fact that I didn't get a white one doesn't bite me in the ass.

It's being delivered in two weeks. Until then, I just have to keep unplugging and plugging back in my current one.

Bering in Mind: Signs, signs, everywhere signs: Seeing God in tsunamis and everyday events

Our minds restlessly gather up bits of the past as if they were important clues to what just happened. And no stone goes unturned. Nothing is too mundane or trivial; anything to settle our peripatetic thoughts from arriving at the unthinkable truth that there is no answer because there is no riddle, that life is life and that is that.

Good link. Thanks I.J. and that quote is perfect actually. I think it is absolutely amazing how people try to fill in their lack of understanding something with a 'supernatural' cause, instead of doing some research and finding out for themselves. It's what I call the willfully ignorant.

By the way, I wiki-ed all the major (7 and above or loss of life) earthquakes of the 20th and 21st century, I think there was a total of 9 earthquakes that occurred on the 11th day of a given month. Surprisingly though, all earthquakes that occurred, happened during one of the 7 days of the week.

P.S. The Haiti earthquake actually happened on the 12th, not the 11th. So it appears that accuracy is not important to these people.

Did you try Restoration Hardware Homepage

edit to add: My other suggestion would be to find one of these, I don't know what they're called exactly, places that tear down old houses & save basically everything. There's 2 or 3 of those that we've bought stuff for the old house. Kind of like auto salvage (aka junkyard) but for houses.

Just another day at the office. This is one of the original R2D2s from Episode 4 sitting right outside my office door. (EDIT) I am now told that is actually from the prequels.

They look like the hinges on this page.

Stanley 4 Hole Swing Clear Hinges For Wheelchair Accessible Doorways

but they are 1 3/4 inch hinges. These pictured are door hinges.

On the one day that I show up to work wearing a shirt without words printed on it, I end up in a freak accident that leaves me with glitter all over my face and hair. So much for not drawing attention to myself at the office today. I hate everything.

I warned you about hanging out with the unicorn across the street.

Made Steak N Eggs for diner tonight. It tastes different when you're sober. Still good, of course

I sincerely hope that a stripper was involved.

I'm so glad I friended my wife's insane aunt on facebook. Her latest gem.

Assuming bathroom brakes are like an inverse laxative?